Weakness Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength. — Debasish Mridha

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions. — T.D. Jakes

[She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap? — Julianna Baggott

The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary. — Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes when our faith is too weak to trust God, He puts us in a place where our weakness forces us to surrender. Not to trust, but to surrender. Surrender then lays the groundwork for trust, because God always shows Himself faithful. — Wayne Stiles

Awareness of your weakness is the first step for correction — Nasser Musliyar

I nodded very slowly. "You're right. Everyone knows my weakness. It's not really a secret. But what most don't get is that she's also what keeps me strong. She's what keeps me fighting. I've killed for her and I'll do it again. In a heartbeat." - Aidan — Ashley Stoyanoff

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.
You cannot truly know strength without weakness.
You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.
You cannot truly know hope without despair. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Admitting a mistake is not a weakness; on the contrary, it shows an openness of your heart. It takes guts to say sorry. Only a strong and well-balanced individual with clarity of mind can do so effortlessly. Taking responsibility for your actions requires and develops your self-control. You become your own person. — Vishwas Chavan

To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed). — Dada Bhagwan

Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness. — Don Roff

Friendship is not just about having fun, it's about supporting each other in time of weakness. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

But I hope you don't feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.

Remember, you always will be. — Khadija Rupa

Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don't. You'd think that after living with these people for fifteen years I'd know a little something about them. But right now I feel like I don't know my parents at all. I guess
when you get down to it, I've never really thought about them as people. They've always been my parents. Now I have to think about them as people with feelings. What a pain.
The funny thing is, I bet they feel the same way. — Michael Thomas Ford

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength. — Archibald Marwizi

Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning." The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits - ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human's life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting. — Donald Van De Mark

Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness — Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

Concentrate on your strength and strongly build your strength whilst others concentrate on your weakness! When your strength is strong enough, you shall surely put them to shame with your strength, and they shall surely see their own weakness better!. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Great men learn from their weaknesses,
and learn to use their strengths.
Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses,
and underuse their strengths. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings. — Lene Fogelberg

The Excellence Manifesto #2

I will resist impatience.
I will resist deceitfulness.
I will resist bitterness.
I will resist ignorance.
I will resist foolishness.
I will resist pridefulness.
I will resist unrighteousness.

I will conquer laziness.
I will subdue indifference.
I will beat incompetence.
I will defeat averageness.
I will overcome fearfulness.
I will transcend weakness.
I will quash unproductiveness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life doesn't stop. It doesn't stop progressing forward and it never stops trying to bring you to your knees. It will test your strengths and exploit your weakness, and I'm not sure that is always such a bad thing. — Christy Aldridge

Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'. — Dada Bhagwan

Hate promises you strength, but is in itself a weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You have been the summary of my entire existence; my biggest weakness, my greatest strength. The weathers of my life start and end with you. You complete me. — Sapan Saxena

The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Holding onto fear is weakness; holding onto faith is strength. — Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how talented you think you are there is always someone better. You can learn from them and hone your skills, or challenge them and reveal your weakness. You get farther in life if you know when to stay in your lane. Try to out run a master in pursuit of success, and you will remain a slave bound by failure. — Carlos Wallace

Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance. — Charles F. Glassman

If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning. — Abhijit Naskar

Forgiveness is not a sign of weakness; it is an attribute of bravery. — Debasish Mridha

Having a weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything~ knowing what your weakness is makes you very powerful indeed. — Nina Montgomery

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness. — Rick Perlstein

How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain. — Dada Bhagwan

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses. — Dada Bhagwan

We all make mistakes. But don't assume you know someone because you've seen them at their worst. In a moment of weakness we do stupid things, say horrible things but don't ever go so low you can't climb back. People will always judge you. Just be around the ones that know better. Enjoy the good and beautiful people in your life. They matter. — Dawn Garcia

He's the reason I am strong
but he is also my biggest weakness. — Nikki Rowe

The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is . — Rudzani Ralph

Stop groveling, stop whining and start working! — Abhijit Naskar

Our weaknesses as a worker are only amplified by being in leadership. — Miles Anthony Smith

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.
Muscles signify strength, not health.
Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.
Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.
Smiling signifies courteousness, not love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What is the greatest weakness? 'Egoism'. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A virtuous person is only of use if he is humble. — Dada Bhagwan

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Crying is NOT a weakness. Cry as much as you have to. Don't be afraid or ashamed to let your tears flow. Crying is a natural part of life. We all have feelings, and sometimes crying is all that we can do. Crying can help relieve the pain, hurt, disappointments, and all of the other things that life can throw our way. Know that it's okay, and know that you're going to be okay as well. Wishing You: Peace of mind, Comfort, Happiness, Joy within and LOVE. — Stephanie Lahart

Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune. — Auliq Ice

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not.
I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew. — Anna White

Weakness is stereotypically expected in women but also despised. — Mercedes M. Yardley

It's not the sickness that Number 23 reduced me to that frightens me. It's how long I willingly ingested it. The last time I heard Number 23's voice, he was telling me that I had a dependency on men, that I'd made him my life raft, that the only reason I put up with him was because I was broken inside. It was the truest thing I've ever been told. Although it was my life's greatest detriment, I was unconscious of it. Unconscious male dependency was the fuel to my Number 23 rebound, a rebound that sent me back to my preteen anorexia, driving me to the vulnerable weakness that sent me crawling back to The South. — Maggie Young

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death". — Swami Vivekananda

Confidence is not allowing your fear of weaknesses and limitations to hold you back but to take control of your weakness and limitation. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you. — Abhijit Naskar

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them. — Abhijit Naskar

Your success is hidden underneath your fears and weakness — Thabiso Monkoe

Kindness is never a sign of weakness but an attribute of strength and courage. — Debasish Mridha

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness. — Evinda Lepins

Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates and depicts the things are based on the words he discovers. At one point where words portray happiness for someone, it also counts for the tears to some. The day we comprehend the strength of words, we would choose them more closely and patiently. Where we would prefer silence more over words. If words are our strength, they are our weakness too. — Nishikant

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths. — Archibald Marwizi

Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'
'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.'
'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.'
'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny. — Mary Balogh

If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only. — Dada Bhagwan

We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You're only as weak as you let yourself become, and you're only as strong as you allow yourself to be. — Daniel Hansen

Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You'll feel afraid at times. You'll feel weak at times. But remember, fear and weakness are not your enemies. They are forms of evolutionary wisdom in the face of danger. Take some time to assess the situation and shake the weakness and fear off your limbic system. — Abhijit Naskar

To be a woman is not a weakness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Befriend knowledge;
ignorance is your enemy.
Wisdom is strength;
ignorance is weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Isn't indiscretion the very definition of weakness? — Emily St. John Mandel

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure. — Archibald Marwizi

Do not fear weakness. Lean on God who will be your strength through every dark storm. — Dana Arcuri

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we're interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including - with a bow to Tennessee Williams - strangers. — Sharon Salzberg

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth. — Michael Bassey Johnson

There is one word that can change weakness into strength; victim into victor: Attitude. — Charles F. Glassman

Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I'll show you a fool. — DeWayne Owens

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don't get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. 'Not being able to get along' is a weakness. — Dada Bhagwan

Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom. — Saru Singhal

Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength. — C. JoyBell C.

Well, perhaps you've caught me at a rare moment of weakness. The greatest gift is to be loved as I have been loved. As I love. — Jillian Hart

The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen. — Sunday Adelaja